Example: SET the TIC FORM to CANCEL DISPLAY
Meaning: The SET command sentence would not be executed. The DISPLAY command would be executed.
/NOTE/
The CANCEL command can be used effectively to discard the ENTER, APPEND, and CHANGE commands only before the colon (:) is typed.
Use - Initiate the display of the named page or part of a page.
General Form - DISPLAY (Partname) (Part) Example: DISPLAY PAGE
Meaning - Display all the parts which make up the 'current' page,
"current" being the page most recently displayed in part or whole.
Example: DISPLAY G1
Meaning - Display the part named G1 if it is a displayable part (named data columns, axes, legends, and frames.by themselves are not displayable). If G 1 is the name of a graph all of that graph would be displayed including Curves, Legend, and Notes, if any.
Use - To erase the terminal screen.
Use - To remove a given subpart from a part specification - inverse of INCLUDE (does not delete the given subpart).
General Form - EXCLUDE partname from Part Partname Example: EXCLUDE G1 from P1
Meaning - Remove G1 graph from page P1.
Restriction - Sub-part to be excluded must currently be an existing member of the specified part (e.g., G1 must be a member of P1).
@ 4010A03 USER
HDCOPY
HELP
INCLUDE
REFERENCE
COMMAND VERBS
Use - To generate a hardcopy of the display (if your terminal is connected to an optional hardcopy unit).
Use - To obtain the next more detailed level of assistance information.
General Form
Action - Prints list of available verbs.
?SET
Action - Prints list of parts for which parameters may be set and general form of set verb sentence.
Example: ? CURVE
I
NOTEI
When an error message appears, you can cause an expanded message to be displayed if you type a question mark (?).
Use - When appropriate, makes the named part a sub-part and locates it.
General Form
-INCLUDE Partname in Partname [HORIZONTALLY
J
with CENTER at X,Y [START
j
VERTICALLY END
4010A03 USER
at X,Y and X,Y
Where coordinate pairs are (X, Y), input is typed as percentages of the length of the part in which the sub-part is included.
Example: INCLUDE C1 in G1 INCLUDE C1 in Graph
Meaning - A curve named C1 is included as a subpart of the graph G 1.
Note: Position information for a CURVE is meaningless.
@ 5-5
COMMAND VERBS
Use - Print on terminal screen the members and/or parameters of the named part, or all part names of given part.
Example: LIST PAGE
Meaning - Lists the current page.
Example: LIST ALL PAGE
Meaning - Lists all page names in internal storage.
Use - To create one or more columns and load them with data values.
General Form - ENTER Dataname (,Dataname, ... Dataname): Value (,Value, ... Value);
Example: ENTER X1,Y1: 2,4,3,9,4,16,5,25;
Meaning - A column named Z1 and a column named Y1 are created in the data structure. The first value (2) is put into X 1, the next (4) into Y1, the next in (3) in X1, continuing pairs and over line boundaries until any alphabetic character occurs or until the end of sentence character(;) is encountered.
@ 401 OA03 USER
REFERENCE
COMMAND VERBS
ENTER (cont) Example: ENTER X1,X2,,Y1 2,4,.01,8,3,9,.02,27;
POSITION
4010A03 USER
Meaning - As above, the columns, X 1,X2, and Y 1 are created. The first number is placed in X1, the second in X2, the third (.01) however, is in the place held by a null operand and is discarded, the fourth is placed in Y1, continuing to the end. This facil-itates selective loading from existing files.
Example: ENTER XDATA CALENDAR, 6, 12, 1975, 7
Meaning - This loads a calendar form in which 6 is the number of periods;
12 is the number of periods per year; 1975 is the beginning year; and 7 is the starting period (i.e., July).
Example: ENTER XDATA SHORT 6,1,2
Meaning - This loads the linear short form in which 6 is the number of points to be plotted; 1 is the first value; and 2 is the increment.
The values plotted would be 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, and 11.
Use - To define the location of parts relative to the part of which they are a sub-part. (e.g., the position of a note relative to the graph of which it is a part.)
General Form
-Position Partname [ HORIZONTALL YJ
VERTICALLY [
START ]
with CENTER at X,Y END
at X,Y and X,Y
Where coordinate pairs are (X, Y) input is typed as percentages of the length of the part in which the sub-part is included.
COMMAND VERBS
Meaning - If a file is recalled without a specified Pagename, a directory of pages in the file will be listed; no pages are read in.
/rvorE/
If any page or part of a page has a name which already exists in main memory, the page is not read. An error message appears showing the con-flict. The part(s) in question should be renamed or removed before the RECALL command is attempted again.
Use -To remove a given named part. (Opposite from DEFINE.) General Form - DELETE Partname (,Partname .. '.)
Example: DELETE G1
Meaning- Delete the part named G1.
Use - Set value of parameters of parts of a page.
General Form
-(Part) (Part)
SET (Parameter) Parameter Value
(Partname) (Partname)
Example: SET the SYMBOL STYLE of the CURVE to 3.
SET CURV2 SYMBOL STYLE 3.
General Form - STORE Pagename (,Pagename ... ) into Fl LE Filename ALL
@ 401 OA03 USER
REFERENCE
COMMAND VERBS
STORE (cont} Example: STORE P1 into Fl L3
4010A03 USER
Meaning - Stores a copy of a page named P1 into bulk storage file named Fl L3. P1 is not removed from internal storage.
Example: STORE ALL
Meaning - Stores all pages in memory into the named FI LE.
/NOTE/
If the named file already exists on the FILE in storage, the question REPLACE OR ADD? is printed. Type either REPLACE (rewrites the file with new page(s) only) or ADD (appends the new page(s) to the old).
@ 5-9